Committees are to get everybody together and homogenize their thinking.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well

Kids do say the darndest things

Children have an unerring instinct for knowing when they are being patronized. They go immediately on the defensive against head-patting adults who treat them like strange beings.

No one can keep from aging, but there is no need to grow old.

I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.

If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

Diplomacy - the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely.

All life is emptiness. Fill it with endless love, bliss, and kindness.

Nothing is more attractive than being your authentic self!

There is not a lost piece of yourself that can't be found in a good novel.

I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave

Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created.

I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.

Hey, thanks for stopping by," Howard said. "I'd offer you some tea and cookies, but all we have is boiled mole and artichokes. Plus, we kind of have a dead girl in the living room.